I thought it might.... have been a great example of a 2000 version with the lights and front bar and side skirts. I know it's US version. Just realised, they never sold the 2000 in US. Oops... You certainly have a rare Z SIM300. It will be worth a bit in the future for sure. Thanks for identifying the bonnet. I thought some people here might be interested in that design. Yes off topic, sorry.
No need to apologise, was just wondering why you posted it. It's a nice Z, but sadly the owner has tarnished that by being a huge douche. He broke into a local workshop that specialises in Z32 and stole a lot of parts/items. The Xenon headlight, 2k front bumper combo isn't that rare. Lots of people have updated the front end of their Z to resemble the '99 spec Z32.
Its not just the 2000 model Z32s that are getting noticeably rarer either. I can remember when I bought my Z32 4 years ago; looking on carsales.com there would typically be 5 or 6 pages of Z32s just for sale in NSW alone. Looking on carsales today (23/01/16) there is only 1 page of Z32s for sale in NSW i.e. just 8 cars of which only 2 are a TT. Similarly in Qld there?s only 9 Z32s for sales. There?s about 45 Z32s advertised Australia wide at carsales but the thing is you used to get at least that many just in NSW alone 4 years ago. So number are really coming down (assuming the number for sale at any time is proportional to the number that exist).
I think you might be right. 131 Australia wide on gum tree. Heard hasn't been thinned quite as much as I thought.
Yes there is more advertised on gumtree, but a lot of those ads are older than Moses himself and shouldn't be there. But that is what gumtree does, it laves ads on there making people think it's a better site etc etc.
The one place that I continually re-live my dream of owning a 2K spec Z32.. I'm not exactly sure just how many they have in their yard but it would be the first place I contact if I was to import one. https://www.facebook.com/Fairlady-Z32-Proshop-Zone%EF%BD%BE%EF%BE%9E%EF%BD%AF%EF%BE%84%EF%BE%9C%EF%BE%9D-286263454768481/
hmm That's where I bought my zed from... Hope you speak Japanese. Although they did help by transporting it to the port, with customs clearance etc. My wife (Japanese) requested it they were happy for a small fee (100-150 bucks) Looking at their website they have 3 cars for sale, 1996,1999 and 2000. But as Chrispy says you cant have a 1998-2000 zed unless you go live there. My cousin lives there and has offered to facilitate for me (if i can have anything a zed isnt the top of the list, can get porsche caymans for same price as 2000 spec zeds) another option if you know a trust worthy person is buy one send it to NZ then have a person there rego it, insure it and garage it for a year then import from there, the documentary evidence from NZ to Australia is very light compared to Japan to Australia. FYI, a Japan contact of mine in the industry sent me some stats re the exporting of second hand vehicles from Japan (complete with his bad spelling) first column is number of cars, second is value of cars, to the value add to the end 000 and divide by approx 80 to get AUD value, I can only guess its for a recent year not sure of start/end date. NEWZEALAND 73707 32920874 UAE 66635 15222795 MYANMAR 57046 21836110 KENYA 50752 36259363 CHILI 37895 9351499 SRI LANKA 35627 61114738 RSUSSIA 31509 16702981 PAKISTAN 29550 29460377 SOUTH AFRICA 26018 4284352 TANZANIA 22710 7604797 MONGOLIA 21515 9707208 BANGLADESH 19325 24979918 GEORGIA 18979 3638934 MALAYSIA 13868 35491026 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 12459 8330322 JAMAICA 11467 8185447 SINGAPORE 11152 26976247 UGANDA 10503 4004895 MOZAMBIQUE 10277 3008545 SURINAME 10124 5132073 HONGNKONG 7672 14244572 TAHILAND 7459 20769222 BOTSWANA 6336 1254089 ZAMBIA 6175 2042547 FIJI 6017 2279878 CYPRUS 5985 3508692 ENGLAND 5744 4108504 CONGO 5337 2049128 PARAGUAI 5235 1281475 BAHAMAS 4699 1600552 MAURITIUS 4650 4357217 AUSTRALIA 4414 2991106 MALTA 4058 1586054
2+2's now get 6U900 followed by the car's original VIN (may be same prefix for 2 seaters?). The VIN you've got there looks like it's probably from the good old days of the Low Volume Import Scheme where whoever had approval to do compliance work on imports basically made up their own new VIN for each car (and these usually had nothing to do with the car's original VIN). The LVIS got shut down thanks to too many young guys wrapping their imported cars around light poles and when the crash investigation guys kept noticing a lot of these cars were in fact cut n shut jobs (a Z in Rocki for example ripped into three sections after a fairly basic crash leaving the driver's seat standing upright, all on its own in the middle of the main road virtually undamaged!), all compliance plate holder's approvals were cancelled over night and the whole system got overhauled. Interestingly, after a few years of the government making f-all money out of imports because a flood of imports suddenly reduced to a trickle under the new, hard system - they swung open the doors with the 15yr thing not requiring any compliance work (because of course, making money is actually so much more important than safety at the end of the day )
Exactly!!! Lol. Seriously I'm having this debate on 300zxclub.com right now about the rarity of an unbastardized Z32 and its rarity! If you have a stock or at least mildly enhanced Z you are in the running for a big upside down the line! We need all types mild to wild but make sure they're running right first!
